Current Projects
Book
Barkai, R. Flint and Stone Axes as Cultural Markers: Socio-Economic
Changes as Reflected in Holocene Flint Tool Industries of the Southern
Levant. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and
Environment. Volume 11. Berlin, ex oriente. 2005.
Refereed Articles
Barkai, R., Burian, F., Friedman, E. and Gopher, A. 1994-5. 18X
- An Epi-Paleolithic Collection from the Nahal Poleg Area. Journal
of the Israel Prehistoric Society 26: 63-74.
Bunimovitz, S. and Barkai, R. 1996. Ancient
Bones and Modern Myths: Ninth Millennium Hippopotamus hunters at
Akrotiri Aetokremnos? Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology
9/1: 85-96.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 1997. Transversal Burins from Nahal Zehora
I, A Pottery Neolithic Site in Central Israel. Neo - Lithics
1/97: 20-23.
Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 1997. Here Are the Microliths: A Reply
to "Where Are the Microliths". Neo - Lithics 1/97: 16-18.
Barkai, R. 1998. Resharpening and Recycling of Flint Bifacial Tools
from the Southern Levant Neolithic and Chalcolithic. Proceedings
of the Prehistoric Society 65: 303-318.
Barkai, R. 1998. Sha'ar
Ephraim South: A Late Natufian Campsite. Tel Aviv 25/1:
94-103.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 1998. Reintroducing
Butt Scrapers (Racloirs Sur Talon): Another Look at a Non-formal
Tool Type. Lithic Technology 23/1: 20-26.
Gopher, A., Barkai, R. and Marder, O. 1998. Cultural Contacts in
the Neolithic period: Anatolian Obsidians in the Southern Levant.
In: Préhistoire d'Anatolie, Genèse de deux mondes,
Liège, ERAUL 85: 641-650.
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 1999. The Last Neolithic Flint Industry:
A Study of the Technology, Typology and Social Implications of the
Lithic Assemblage from Nahal Zehora I, a Wadi Raba (Pottery Neolithic)
Site in the Menashe Hills, Israel. Journal of the Israel Prehistoric
Society 29: 41-122.
Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2000. Canaanean
Blade Workshop at Har Haruvim, Israel. Tel Aviv 27: 3-22.
Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2001. An Epipaleolithic
Occurrence at the Site of 'Ain Miri, Northern Israel. Neo-Lithics
1/01: 4-5.
Barkai, R. 2002. Towards a Methodology of Neolithic and Chalcolithic
Bifacial Tool Analysis. Neo-Lithics 1/02: 3-8.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and La Porta, P.C. 2002. Paleolithic
Landscape of Extraction: Flint Surface Quarries and Workshops at
Mt. Pua, Israel. Antiquity 76: 672-680.
Barkai, R. and Galili, E. 2003. The
PPNC Bifacial Tool Industry from the Submerged Site of Atlit-Yam,
Israel. Eurasian Prehistory 1/2: 139-162.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Lauritzen, S.E. and Frumkin, A. 2003. Uranium
Series Dates from Qesem Cave, Israel, and the End of the Lower Palaeolithic.
Nature 423: 977-979.
Godfrey-Smith, D.I., Vaughan, K.B., Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2003.
Direct Luminescence
Chronology of the Epipaleolithic Kebaran Site of Nahal Hadera V,
Israel. Geoarchaeology 18: 461-475.
Yerkes, R.W., Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and Bar-Yosef, O. 2003. Microwear
Analysis of Early Neolithic (PPNA) Axes and Bifacial Tools from
Netiv Hagdud in the Jordan Valley, Israel. Journal of Archaeological
Science 30: 1051-1066.
Shimelmitz, R., Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2004. The Geometric
Kebaran Microlithic Assemblage from Ain Miri, Northern Israel.
Paléorient 30/2: 127-140.
Verri, G., Barkai, R., Bordeanu, C., Gopher, A., Hass, M., Kaufman,
A., Kubik, P., Montanari, E., Paul, M., Ronen, A., Weiner, S. and
Boaretto, E. 2004. Flint
Mining in Prehistory Recorded by in Situ Produced Cosmogenic 10Be.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 101(21):
7880-7884.
Gopher, A., Barkai, R., Shimelmitz, R., Khalaly, M., Lemorini, C.,
Hershkovitz, I, and Stiner, M. 2005. Qesem
Cave: An Amudian Site in Central Israel. Journal of the Israel
Prehistoric Society 35: 69-92.
Lemorini, C., Gopher, A., Shimelmitz, R., Stiner, M., and Barkai,
R. 2005. Use-wear
Analysis of an Amudian Laminar Assemblage from Acheuleo-Yabrudian
Qesem Cave, Israel. Journal of Archaeological Science
33: 921-934.
Verri, G., Barkai, R., Gopher, A., Hass, M., Kubik, P., Paul, M.,
Ronen, A., Weiner, S. and Boaretto, E. 2005. Flint
Procurement Strategies in the Late Lower Palaeolithic Recorded by
in Situ Produced Cosmogenic 10Be in Tabun and Qesem Caves (Israel).
Journal of Archaeological Science 32: 207-213.
Barkai, R. 2006. The
Earliest Tree Fellers: On Axes, People and Ideology During the Neolithic
and Chalcolithic Periods in Israel. Jerusalem and the Land
of Israel 3: 5-21 (In Hebrew).
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and La Porta, P.C. 2006. Middle
Pleistocene Landscape of Extraction: Quarry and Workshop Complexes
in Northern Israel. In: Goren-Inbar, N. and Sharon, G. (eds.).
Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking - from Quarry to Discard. (Equonox
Publishers, Oxford). Pp. 7-44.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and Shimelmitz, R. 2006. Middle
Pleistocene Blade Production in the Levant: An Amudian Assemblage
from Qesem Cave, Israel. Eurasian Prehistory 3(2): 39-74.
Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2006. Flint
Extraction Sites and Workshops in Prehistoric Galilee, Israel.
In: Korlin, G. and Weisgerber, G. (eds.). Stone Age Sites - Der
Anschnitt 19, Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau Museum Bochum. Pp. 91-98.
Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Barkai,
R., Frumkin, A., Gopher, A. and Stiner, M.C. 2007. Evidence
for Habitual Use of Fire at the End of the Lower Paleolithic: Site
Formation Processes at Qesem Cave, Israel. Journal of Human
Evolution 53: 197-212.
Barkai, R. and Liran, R. 2008. Midsummer
Sunset at Neolithic Jericho.
Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and
Culture 1/3:273–284.
Barkai, R., Lemorini, C., Shimelmitz, R., Lev, Z., Stiner, M. and
Gopher, A. 2009. A
blade for all seasons? Making and using Amudian blades at Qesem
Cave, Israel. Human Evolution 24:57-75.
Buaretto, E., Barlkai,R.,Gopher, A., Berna, F., Kubik, P. and Weiner,
S. 2009. Specialized
Flint Procurement Strategies for Hand Axes, Scrapers and Blades
in the Late Lower Paleolithic: A 10Be Study at Qesem Cave, Israel.
Human Evolution 24:1-12.
Frumkin, A., Karkanas, P., Bar-Matthews, M., Barkai, R.,Gopher,
A., Schak-Gross, R. and Vaks, A. 2009. Gravitational
deformations and fillings of aging caves: the example of Qesem karst
system, Israel. Geomorphology
106:154-164.
Stiner, M., Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2009. Cooperative
hunting and meat sharing 400-200 kya at Qesem Cave, Israel.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A.
106:13207-13212.
Gopehr, A., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M. Barkai, R., Frumkin, A., Karkanas, P.,and Shahack-Gross, R. 2010. The chronology of the Late Lower Paleolithic in the Levant: U series dates of speleothems from Middle Pleistocene Qesem cave, Israel. Quaternary Geochronology (available online).
Maul, L., Smith, K,. Barkai, R., Barash, A., Karkanas, P., Shahack-Gross, R. and Gopher, A. 2010.Of Men and Mice at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel: small vertebrates, environment and biostratigraphy. Journal of Human Evolution (available online).
Hershkovitz ,I; Smith, P; Sarig, R; Quam, R; Rodríguez, L; García, R; Arsuaga, J-L; Barkai, .R. and Gopher,.A. 2010. Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave, Israel. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Barkai, R., Lemorini, C., and Gopher,.A. 2010.Palaeolithic cutlery 400 000–200 000 years ago: tiny meat-cutting tools from Qesem Cave, Israel. Antiquity 84 (325).
Stiner, M., Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. In press. Hearth-side socioeconomics, hunting and paleoecology during the late Lower Paleolithic at Qesem Cave, Israel. Journal of Human Evolution.
Chapters in Books
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and Friedman, E. 1997. Prehistoric Occurrences
in Western Samaria: The 1967-8 survey. In: Finkelstein, I. and Lederman,
Z. (eds.). Highlands of Many Culture. The Southern Samaria Survey.
Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University:
857-881.
Barkai, R. 2001. Make
my Axe: Flint Bifacial Tools Production and Resharpening at the
EPPNB Site of Nahal Lavan 109. In: Caneva, I., Lemorini, C.,
Zampetti, D. and Biagi, P. (eds.). Beyond Tools: Redefining the
PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant. Studies in Early Near Eastern
Production, Subsistance and Environment 9. Berlin, ex oriente.
Pp. 73-92.
Barkai, R. 2001. PPNA Flint and Stone Axes: Technological, Functional
and Symbolic Aspects. In: Maeir, A.M. and Baruch, E. (eds.). Settlement,
Civilization and Culture. Proceedings of the Conference in Memory
of David Alon. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. Pp. 17-47 (in
Hebrew).
Barkai, R. and Gopher, A. 2001. Flint Quarries in the Southern Levantine
Holocene: A Routine Procedure? New Evidence from the Upper Galilee,
Israel. In: Caneva, I., Lemorini, C., Zampetti, D. and Biagi, P.
(eds.). Beyond Tools: Redefining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of
the Levant. Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistance
and Environment 9. Berlin, ex oriente. Pp. 17-25.
Gopher, A. and Barkai, R. 2001. Flint Extraction Sites and Workshops
in Prehistoric Galilee, Israel. Proceedings of the VIII International
Flint Symposium, Bochum, 13-17 September 1999.
Gopher, A., Barkai, R. and Asaf, A. 2001. Trends in Sickle Blades
Production in the Neolithic of the Hula valley, Israel. In: Caneva,
I., Lemorini, C., Zampetti, D. and Biagi, P. (eds.). Beyond Tools:
Redefining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant. Studies in
Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistance and Environment 9.
Berlin, ex oriente. Pp. 411-425.
Barkai, R. 2004. The
Chalcolithic Lithic Assemblage. In: Scheftelowitz, N. and Oren,
R. (eds.). Giv'at Ha-Oranim. A Late Chalcolithic Site, Salvage
Excavation Reports, No. 1, Emery and Claire Yass Publication in
Archaeology, Tel Aviv. Pp. 87-109.
Yerkes, R.W. and Barkai, R. 2004. Microwear
Analysis of Chalcolithic Bifacial Tools from the Giv'at Ha-Oranim
Site in Central Israel. In: Scheftelowitz, N., and Oren, R.
(eds.). Giv'at Ha-Oranim. A Late Chalcolithic Site, Salvage
Excavation Reports, No. 1, Emery and Claire Yass Publication in
Archaeology, Tel Aviv. Pp. 110-124.
Gopher, A. & Barkai, R. 2006. Flint
extraction sites and workshops in prehistoric Galilee, Israel.
In Korlin, G. And Weisgerber, G. (eds.). Stone Age Sites – Der Anschnitt 19, Bochum: Deutsches Bergbau Museum Bochum. Pp. 91-98.
Barkai, R., Gopher, A. and La Porta, P.C. 2006. Middle
Pleistocene Landscape of Extraction: Quarry and Workshop Complexes
in Northern Israel. In: Axe Age: Acheulian Toolmaking
- from Quarry to Discard. N. Goren-Inbar, G. Sharon, Eds. (Equonox
Publishers, Oxford). Pp. 7-44.
Barkai, R., and Yerkes, R.W. 2007. Stone axes as cultural markers:
Technological, functional and symbolic changes in bifacial tools
during the transition from Hunter-Gatherers to sedentary agriculturalists
in the Southern Levant. In “Prehistoric Technology” 40 Years Later: Functional Studies and the Russian Legacy: Proceedings
of the conference held in Verona, Italy; April 20-23, 2005, edited
by L. Longo, BAR International Series.
Barkai, R. Gopher, A. and Weiner, J. 2007. Quarrying Flint at Neolithic
Ramat Tamar: An Experiment.In: Astruc, L. Binder, D. and Briois,
F. eds. Systemes Techniques et communates du Neolithique Preceramique
au Proche-Orient. Actes du 5 colloque international Frejus, 2004.Antibes:25-32.
Chapters in Books
Barkai, R. And Gopher, A. 2009. Changing
the face of the earth: Human behavior at Sede Ilan, an extensive
Lower-Middle Paleolithic quarry site in Israel. In: Adams,
B. And Blades, B. (eds.). Lithic Materials and Paleolithic Societies.
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford. Pp. 174-185.
Around
the World in the Middle Pliestocene - Students' Presentations
BA Seminar in Prehistoric Archaeology 2006-7
Dr. Ran Barkai
Varia
Levi, B. and Barkai, R. The
Paleolithic origins of the Grandmaother Hypothesis. Galileo.
June 2009 Pp. 18-28. (In Hebrew).
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